On F8, makeinfo is probably broken since it generates wrong START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY entries. Consider the following Texinfo input test.texi: \input texinfo @setfilename test @settitle Foo manual @dircategory Misc @direntry * Foo: (foo). Mega-Foo. @end direntry With makeinfo from texinfo-4.11, result of 'makeinfo --force test.texi' is: INFO-DIR-SECTION Misc START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This is test, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from test.texi. * Foo: (foo). Mega-Foo. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY But, with makeinfo from texinfo 4.8, the result was: This is test, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from test.texi. INFO-DIR-SECTION Misc START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * Foo: (foo). Mega-Foo. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY I.e. the description "This is ..." is not within START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY/END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY block.
Thanks for reporting, fixed texinfo-4.11-3.fc8 will be pushed to testing soon.
texinfo-4.11-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update texinfo'
texinfo-4.11-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.